This post was originally part of an email conversation. Read here for more details. From: Chris Stoneman Sent: 11 July 2008 15:45 To: Ben Smith Cc: Maple, Nicholas; John Klein; Bradbeer, Alexander; Jonathan Odom Subject: RE: Musical Journey : Arcade Fire So, this has to be a briefer and more recent band as I’m scared […]

This post was originally part of an email conversation. Read here for more details. by Jonathan Odom From: Jonathan Odom Sent: 10 July 2008 14:18 To: Ben Smith Cc: Stoneman, Chris; John Klein Subject: RE: Musical Journey : David Bowie Since Chris covered the beatles, the next logical step in the progression is undoubtedly David Bowie. […]

This post was originally part of an email conversation. Read here for more details. From: Stoneman, Chris Sent: 09 July 2008 17:06 To: Smith, Ben Subject: Musical journey: The Beatles SOBEN! I’ve been meaning to do this all week and due to time constraints I have failed miserably. However, I have 10 minutes spare […]

It is with great sadness that our good friend Ben (or Bin as he is known, due to his Kiwi accent) has left us for the foreseeable future. He has flown to Damascus which I’ve been told is, like, MILES away in some place WELL foreign, and is riding his little pink push bike all […]

I find this topic fascinating, as it is at the crux of any argument regarding where the music industry is headed. Please be aware that in the below rant, I am largely discussing the masses’ interaction with pop music, i.e music that finds itself towards the top of the sales charts. I’ll start with the […]

So. As you can probably see I have decided to start a blog. I have had to harness the one time of the year, or perhaps decade, when my two ‘bored’ and ‘motivated’ axis cross to begin such a self indulgant task, the time of year when days spent in hiding from the outside world […]